an interesting comment following the Supreme Court's ruling:
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''If anything good can come out of all the suffering endured by these 400+ children, it is that maybe the rest of the country got a wake-up call. Texas CPS kept saying it themselves: 'All this was standard operating procedure, it's how we treat all families.'
And in that respect, almost every state is Texas. Aside from the sheer size of the endeavor, and those first days at CPS' kiddie-Guantanamo, nothing happened to these families that doesn't happen to hundreds of thousands of families every year. (And, in fact, even the interning of children in ''shelters'' in the first days after placement is not unusual). But the families to whom this normally happens are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately minority. They rarely have good legal representation. And everything happens in secret.
So nobody knows about it, and we can pretend it doesn't happen. Maybe this case has stripped away the pretense and shown the nation how most CPS agencies work most of the time. Maybe people will start to question what's going on in the other 49 states, and demand real change.''
Richard Wexler, executive director, National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, Virginia.
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"nothing happened to these families that doesn't happen to hundreds of thousands of families every year" -- frightening.